I know that every post talks about feeling like a holiday, but this weekend was my first actual holiday in Zambia. I went camping with a group of 8 people, mostly VSO vounteers from Lusaka in my new tent, and had great fun toasting marshmellows and getting to know some new people.
The weekend started off somewhat surreal-y, as Helen and Dan (a British VSO couple in Lusaka) invited me to stay at their flat. They have been keeping a video blog for VSO, and I'd taken a virtual tour of their flat when I was still in London. Odd to be spying on your friends before you've met them, but lovely to find out that they're even nicer in real life than on screen!!
Apart from an epic journey (the drive ended up takng about 15 hours after a couple of punctures, not many places to buy tyres on Good Friday, slight route mistake and a lot of potholes, and the fact that after we turned off the road it was another 25km into the campsite!) it was an incredibly peaceful weekend, exploring a very different side of Africa. Typically I took hardly any photos, but it looks exactly like on the website http://www.mutinondozambia.com Highlights included swimming in waterfalls, canoeing, and climbing a hill to see probably the biggest landscape I've ever seen. Incredible to see for miles in all directions and not be able to glimpse a single road or building.
Back in Livingstone now and work's really interesting this week. Frustrating today trying to get a proposal sent, but will be great news if it's successful and may even lead to internet in the office........please keep all fingers crossed!
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Hiya honey, having great fun following your blog and reading about your adventures. Pleased you have settled in and are making new frinds.
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love Gaynor
This is a great blog. Keep it up mate. Did you hear we lost Jonathan Dibb? Very sad. :))
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